The relationship between a musician and the demands of society have always ebbed and flowed, a mass of appreciation that is given freely, but then one which is tempered, almost costing the artist the substantial amount of their soul; it is when the outside interference comes along that the musician may feel that they owe more than is necessary and that is the sadness which waylays, perhaps even destroys many a marvellous mind.
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Eleanor Nelly, People Like Us. E.P. Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
We search all our lives for People Like Us, for those we see in the everyday, the faces that melt and merge with the one after another and the slow dawning that our standards are normally too high, that what we seek is impossible to define, all that we can hope for is that somewhere in the world the search is being undertaken, the same snapshot with an instant Polaroid result, that someone out there is looking for a person like you.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Paradise Street Stage, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Eleanor Nelly, Liverpool. April 2017. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
If Paradise is half as nice as Liverpool on sunny but freezing cold day then to be honest it can only be enhanced by the sound of one of the city’s daughters being heard in the centre of the main shopping area and being so entrancing that she could be heard at either end of the main street and possibly the echo reverberating all the way to Nashville where she was going to spend the next week on the next step of her music career.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. The Casa, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A hall fit for heroes of their craft, or perhaps just a simple way to enjoy the sound of a woman who is surely destined for great things, be it here in the suburbs of her home town in Liverpool or the drama of undiluted cool across the United States where her music pretty much already has no rivals; in Eleanor Nelly there is flourishing youthful hope and she is class personified.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10
It seems to be that the phrase for Liverpool’s Eleanor Nelly is “always continues to impress and astound”; for when you see this young musician perform you forget about many things, Time gets swallowed up, Time finds a way to be its own destructing agent without decaying the fragile and sensitive beauty that is bonded between audience and performer. It is almost as if Time understands the special nature that comes with Ms. Nelly and wants to make sure that those that see her perform now in Liverpool enjoy, take pleasure in and bask in the enormity to come, for six months on from turning 16, Eleanor is surely earmarked to go to the stars.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Baltic Social. Liverpool Acoustic @ Threshold, 2016.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
From supplying music at a book launch to the overwhelming argument that you were at the very best during one of Liverpool’s iconic festivals, to Eleanor Nelly, all things must be seen as just part of growing up with the very finest of supporters in her corner, her dear mother, and being immersed into the very fabric of Liverpool music at such a young tender age; yet they must also be seen as proof, as if proof were ever needed, that she is one of the most highly respected young musicians around.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Write Blend, Waterloo.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are moments in a young musician’s life when the sound they create is not only stunning, it can make the die-hards and the cynical weep behind closed eyes and have them mutter that whilst music may have changed, it remains intact and an endearing presence in some.
In Eleanor Nelly, one of Liverpool’s bright young things, that presence is keenly felt and to admired, even when she is supporting someone different in a book shop in Waterloo. Being able to watch this fine musician up close and personal in amongst the books and rampaging taste of coffee and stirring tea was not only a singular pleasure but one that encapsulated the point of encouraging the young to strive for all they can; for dreams are soon too easily dashed if not nurtured and held on to.
Eleanor Nelly, Insane & Loved. E.P. Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is so much going on in the life of Eleanor Nelly that a music lover you have to stand back, smile and appreciate with utter faith and conviction the beauty in the songs that she offers to live audiences. That conviction, that heartfelt comprehension of her soul and understanding of her as a person, is only intensified when you finally get the chance to hear the songs played out in the setting of your living room or through the earphones as you disconnect from the world and the gossip on the bus. For through being able to hear the softness of a voice hammer home the anarchy of a young woman, the turmoil, the pain and the grace that comes with such an age, the listener is able to empathise with the disgraceful way we as a society are still treating our youth.
Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.
Eleanor Nelly at Zanzibar in Liverpool. January 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Holding back from praising an artist is perhaps arguably the hardest job when it comes to comes to reviewing, you want the whole world to see what you have seen for a couple of years, the flourishing and blossoming of a musician before your very eyes, you can’t wait to tell those around you just how good they are…but you wait until it’s appropriate to do so; it is only the right thing to do and they in turn reward you with a performance that is measured, controlled and full of illumination.
Red Skies, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Saul Murphy, Maggie Lynch, Charlie Griffiths, Sara Woodley, Eleanor Nelly, Jay Podmore, Jonathan McIntyre, Lynne Fitzgerald, Lesley Butler, Alan Walsh, Berbie Foley, Michael Swift, Marc J Morison, Rebecca Ray Johnson, Danny Marray, Holly Clarke, Rachel Waldock, Libby Drinkwater-Burke, Logan Drinkwater-Burke.
The scars of war never truly fade and that is arguably the truest sentiment when it comes to the devastation visited upon Liverpool and Bootle during the dark days of The Blitz. Any visitor to the city, any person who has lived in the two neighbouring towns, will still be overawed by the monuments to the dead and the long nights endured by the people during the campaign to bring the people to their knees.